WASHINGTON Among the serious accusations of improper spending leveled at Rep. Aaron Schock since The Washington Post shined a spotlight on his "Downton Abbey"-themed office are at least a dozen flights aboard his political donors' private planes. But Rep. Don Young and a handful of other lawmakers have pushed to change the very ethics rule Schock is alleged to have violated by accepting flights aboard privately owned aircraft. The Alaska Republican called it "one of the dumber rules that's ever come out of the Rules Committee," during a fall 2014 hearing on proposed rule changes for the 114th Congress, and told his colleagues he had plenty of friends who would...

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